English Explanatory Dictionary

scalding hot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scalding, hot: very hot in a way that can scald, involving fluids (e.g., water, steam, gases).
  2. Extremely hot.

Word forms

scalding hot

Etymology

From Middle English scladeng hoot; equivalent to scalding + hot.

Synonyms

scalding steaming hot steaming boiling hot piping hot hot choleric heated baking hot smoking hot

Antonyms

freezing cold freezing ice-cold icy stone cold algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill chilled chilly clay-cold cold cold as a mackerel cold as charity frosty frore frozen gelid glacial hiemal inclement nesh nippy parky polar sleety snowy taters wintry
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